Three Resistance Movements Memorial in Lošany
IXA 

Three Resistance Movements Memorial in Lošany

IXA 


The Prague-based firm IXA has turned a farm in Lošany into a monument commemorating three resistance periods of modern Czechoslovakian history. The circumstances around the formation of these movements are recounted through the story of several generations of a family of farmers.

The creation of the Three Resistance Movements Memorial began in 2017, almost three decades after the fall of the communist regime, when Zdeňka Mašínová regained ownership of the farm of her father, Josef Mašín. Due to numerous renovations, the ancestral home had in part lost its character. The only preserved vestiges of the original construction are the masonry and the vaulted rooms at ground level, which have been stabilized by means of a coating of sprayed concrete, in a process that can be described as the mummification of the base structure.